7 March – 22 March 2023

The artist belongs to the generation that grew up in independent Ukraine. These are people who did not know the arbitrariness of the totalitarian system. Konstantin Rogotchenko over the course of twenty years in the visual arts has overcome the path from a solid realist-academic to a conceptual existential analyst. According to his story: "After trying myself in graphics, I learned to think in linear quantities. However, in this area I felt a certain creative limitation. He immersed himself in painting. At first I thought realistically, in the spirit of beginners. Later, he overcame his fear and dared to abstract the form, hiding his own subconscious plots in it. Paradoxically, it was abstract painting that brought me closer to the awareness of reality, allowed me to penetrate into the essence of the present, the totality of its dramatic impulses, intellectual achievements, psychological tensions, to grasp those things that are perceived only intuitively. I try to structure all this specificity with the help of the logic of lines and the strict geometry of the form."

Like other artists, Konstantin lives in several dimensions. The artist knows how to see what was and what will be. He saw and felt the disaster that circled around and eventually came to peaceful Ukraine with a bloody war much earlier. This is evidenced by the minor paintings made earlier - "The Burning Sea", "War for Ukraine", "The City That Does Not Exist"... Unfortunately, these works became prophetic. But the painting of recent years, on the contrary, is bright, joyful, cheerful, life-giving. The artist has long seen and felt the Victory over the enemy. So be it.

This exhibition is dedicated to cities, villages, towns, and farms, from where people were forced to leave against their will. In the language of fine art, the painter Konstantin Rogotchenko assures that life will return, cities will be rebuilt, gardens will bloom, and nightingales, not afraid of cannon blasts, will still sing in our region. Everything will be Ukraine.

Curator: Oleksiy Rogotchenko

The full price of the ticket is 100 UAH.